DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) Essential Topics for Interviews

1️⃣ Arrays and Strings

Basic operations (insert, delete, update)

Two-pointer technique

Sliding window

Prefix sum

Kadane’s algorithm

Subarray problems


2️⃣ Linked List

Singly & Doubly Linked List

Reverse a linked list

Detect loop (Floyd’s Cycle)

Merge two sorted lists

Intersection of linked lists


3️⃣ Stack & Queue

Stack using array or linked list

Queue and Circular Queue

Monotonic Stack/Queue

LRU Cache (LinkedHashMap/Deque)

Infix to Postfix conversion


4️⃣ Hashing

HashMap, HashSet

Frequency counting

Two Sum problem

Group Anagrams

Longest Consecutive Sequence


5️⃣ Recursion & Backtracking

Base cases and recursive calls

Subsets, permutations

N-Queens problem

Sudoku solver

Word search


6️⃣ Trees & Binary Trees

Traversals (Inorder, Preorder, Postorder)

Height and Diameter

Balanced Binary Tree

Lowest Common Ancestor (LCA)

Serialize & Deserialize Tree


7️⃣ Binary Search Trees (BST)

Search, Insert, Delete

Validate BST

Kth smallest/largest element

Convert BST to DLL


8️⃣ Heaps & Priority Queues

Min Heap / Max Heap

Heapify

Top K elements

Merge K sorted lists

Median in a stream


9️⃣ Graphs

Representations (adjacency list/matrix)

DFS, BFS

Cycle detection (directed & undirected)

Topological Sort

Dijkstra’s & Bellman-Ford algorithm

Union-Find (Disjoint Set)


10️⃣ Dynamic Programming (DP)

0/1 Knapsack

Longest Common Subsequence

Matrix Chain Multiplication

DP on subsequences

Memoization vs Tabulation


11️⃣ Greedy Algorithms

Activity selection

Huffman coding

Fractional knapsack

Job scheduling


12️⃣ Tries

Insert and search a word

Word search

Auto-complete feature


13️⃣ Bit Manipulation

XOR, AND, OR basics

Check if power of 2

Single Number problem

Count set bits

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